Wow, was that really necessary? It’s one thing to remark on a person’s fashion choices, but “working on a full trough?” To say someone makes a terrible fashion choice is easy to dismiss, but attacking someone’s weight is somewhat different. It’s meaner–more insulting. We don’t know why these people are heavy–maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye. Obviously, they’ve found happiness with each other. Is it so hard to wish them well…or do they have to meet the stereotype of the thin, gorgeous “Hollywood” couple? Not everyone is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The average American looks a hell of a lot more like these two–if they are lucky!
There’s a segment of society that feels it’s okay to make fun of heavy people–that “fat chick” jokes are funny, that nobody gets hurt by them. Manolo, you’ve make such a point of poking “gentle fun” at the celebrities that I’d hoped for better than cheap shots at people who struggle with their weight. A lot of common folk do struggle… but maybe you do not? I know that your blog is dedicated to making fun of the celebrities, but to me? Fat jokes are never that funny.
Black is slimming, we all know that. I think we all know now that pink is not. I have my own pudge around the “circle of life” but know how to not put it on display. Sorry but if you marry Garth Brooks, who is apparantly a big deal, then dress accordingly for the paparazzi. Or at least suck it in. She’s gotta know she’ll be on display and open for critique. God Bless her though…
Fat jokes? That has nothing to do with shoes and is a cheap shot. Understand your audience, one of the nice thing about shoes for us fatties is we can still wear gorgeous shoes when we are too big for Prada pants. It is our sole fashion freedom, because the coture clothing will never fit those of us who exceed a size 12. I know the punchline to many tv jokes is simply a fat person eating a sandwich, or even funnier – a fat woman flirting with a classicly handsome man – how dare she! She could never be attractive! But that same fat lady – me – can shop for shoes with her skinny gal pals and just in this one teeny area of life not have to endure apologetic pitiful stares and outright mocking because my money will by me beautiful shoes that fit properly. Don’t alienate us big girls who click the links of your affiliate programs and buy those gorgeous shoes, Manolo. I’m sure you’re exceptionally gorgeous and only have pals who are model thin, but your audience is likely more like me than you.
I don’t get it. It’s mean to poke fun at someone’s failure to take care of his/her body properly, but poking fun at someone’s lack of taste and dress sense isn’t? Why’s that?
There’s nothing wrong with being overweight, as the Manolo has often remarked. There IS something wrong with being overweight and insisting on wearing tight white trousers.
manolo has made fun even of very thin and pretty girls (look at the last post on jessica simpson)….making fun of one’s size is like making fun of how someone is dressed, and this is beacuse what we put on represents what we are. but no one ever jumped up and said “you shouldn’t be doing this”!! all of us laughed when someone pokes fun at someone’s way of dressing.
and if you put your mouse on the photo, he has written “the garth and the trisha they are just like the rest of us”, which is a comment that speaks for itself.
i am not a skinny girl at all, and i think that sometimes when comments hurt us it is beacuse we are not able to feel fine with ourselves and perceive not serious or not harsh comments like very bad things. but this is obviously my personal silly opinion :)
“It is the sad fact that the Manolo he was not blessed with the elegant shape of the body, and so he, like many of the peoples, must fight the war against the fatness. The war he himself loses as much as he wins.”
To the Manolo this little joke it was much funnier (if you know the Garth Books song) than the alternative, which was “Here are the Garth and the Trisha heading out to do their clothes shopping at the feed store.”
Sometimes the jokes, they are not politically correct, but they make the Manolo laugh so hard that he must share them. This joke it falls into that category.
Being one of “little teapot” proportions (short and stout), the deja is aware of and offended by the mean-spirited fat jokes. However this little jibe by the Manolo did not strike the deja as such. And yes, the white pants are a fashion risk anywhere other than on the tropical island sipping the intoxicating fruit drinks of astronimical caloric content.
and by the way,hicktowndiva, saying that someone dresses horrible like WE ALL DO should be banned too at this point:you say that we don’t know why someone is fat, that that person might have serious problems….well, when you and i and all in this world make fun of a person who is dressed horrible, we should feel ashamed because it might be that that person is very poor, has very serious problems, etc etc….
so the solution is to be silent, be always politically correct….which is sometimes worse than poking fun!!
i
I think that one of the pleasures of having a blog would be to state your own opinions because ultimately that’s all this is. Everybody is entitled to one and everybody is allowed to disagree. Everyday people at Wal-Mart dress like fools and everybody in Hollywood dress like fools or, are so thin that they look quite ill.So, ultimately, everyone should allowed to be stupid to some degree and look past it and to focus on the individual themselves.
That’s Trisha Yearwood, right? I’m guessing she can afford to hire someone to help her go shopping and pick clothes that fit. The problem isn’t that she’s wearing white pants after Labor Day, or that she’s a size 14/16. The problem is that the clothes are too small. If she was wearing the same outfit it the right sizes, she’d look much better, and no one would say anything at all. The clothes don’t have to be from Fred Segal. She could be shopping at JC Penny-it’s all in the fit.
The hot pink does detract from her beautiful face and hair. White pants with a camel or chocolate brown top instead?
I’m not thin, but I get compliments on my clothes. That’s because my clothes fit. And I make a lot, lot less money than Garth & Trisha do, but I look for flattering styles. These two people, talented as they are, happy as they look, need stylists. White pants…just…no, unless you’re a nurse, and even nurses don’t wear white pants anymore, I noticed on my last visit to the hospital.
Anyway. Manolo: I’m not that much thinner than Trisha. I laughed out loud at your comment. It’s funny. You’re brilliant. That’s all.
I am thinking some people are a tad oversensitive, here. The Manolo was not talking about YOU, mortally offended darling, but Trisha Yearwood, who is in the public eye and fair game.
And, as an RN working in bariatrics, I do not believe the vast majority of overweight Americans have glandular or pituitary problems. No, they need more treadmill and less McDonalds. Maybe one hundredth of one percent of the overweight population can claim problems like that as a contributing factor. So gimme a break.
I thought is was hilarious, and a totally PC world is a boring one. Trish Yearwood should know ill-fitting white pants will provoke comment, regardless of her size.
I don’t think that they look bad because they’re fat-
i think they look bad because their clothes are too small.
This chick has a pretty face, and if her shirt didn’t blatantly display her belly roll, she would come across as quite attractive.
I beleive Manolo had an article saying something to the effect that fat girls can indeed be superfantastic, but must take more care in dressing their bodies then skinny girls. Their clothes must fit and not cling unbecomingly.
To answer will gaston, they are the Garth Brooks and the Trisha Yearwood, stars of the American country music and recently engaged to be wed. I love them dearly for their talent and their not killing themselves to be of the physical shape as are, for example, the Tim McGraw and the Faith Hill, who are also the stars of the American country music.
That said, the muffin top is never the correct answer.
Maybe they were leaving the tractor pull… those can be fun, I’ve heard. If they were, they were perhaps a titch overdressed… who can say?
I laughed over the Manolo’s comment because of its pun to a country song lyric; not because of anyone’s weight. And as Robyn said – it’s all about the fit. People look best in properly fitting clothes.
And really, these two look so much happier than any of the skinny-minnies that Manolo mocks; I’m sure they laugh in good grace, & note to themselves to put away the white pants.
For the man with a few extra pounds or a round face, the goatee and moustache are not flattering. They make his face look wider than it is. And short, short hair, to my way of thinking, flatters only those men who are as lean and fit as Marines.
The only reason the rest of us haven’t been photographed in a stupid outfit is because most of us anyhow, aren’t followed around by photographers. Maybe they are too happy to worry about it.
Comments
JayKay 18 years ago
Oh honey, white pants just aren’t for everyone. No, no no….
hicktowndiva 18 years ago
Wow, was that really necessary? It’s one thing to remark on a person’s fashion choices, but “working on a full trough?” To say someone makes a terrible fashion choice is easy to dismiss, but attacking someone’s weight is somewhat different. It’s meaner–more insulting. We don’t know why these people are heavy–maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye. Obviously, they’ve found happiness with each other. Is it so hard to wish them well…or do they have to meet the stereotype of the thin, gorgeous “Hollywood” couple? Not everyone is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The average American looks a hell of a lot more like these two–if they are lucky!
There’s a segment of society that feels it’s okay to make fun of heavy people–that “fat chick” jokes are funny, that nobody gets hurt by them. Manolo, you’ve make such a point of poking “gentle fun” at the celebrities that I’d hoped for better than cheap shots at people who struggle with their weight. A lot of common folk do struggle… but maybe you do not? I know that your blog is dedicated to making fun of the celebrities, but to me? Fat jokes are never that funny.
distressedjeans 18 years ago
Camel toes of the world unite!
You must realize that tight pants and country music go together like mechanical bulls and rodeo clowns.
I do believe Manolo is a closet Garth Brooks fan.
Rome 18 years ago
Black is slimming, we all know that. I think we all know now that pink is not. I have my own pudge around the “circle of life” but know how to not put it on display. Sorry but if you marry Garth Brooks, who is apparantly a big deal, then dress accordingly for the paparazzi. Or at least suck it in. She’s gotta know she’ll be on display and open for critique. God Bless her though…
llh 18 years ago
Fat jokes? That has nothing to do with shoes and is a cheap shot. Understand your audience, one of the nice thing about shoes for us fatties is we can still wear gorgeous shoes when we are too big for Prada pants. It is our sole fashion freedom, because the coture clothing will never fit those of us who exceed a size 12. I know the punchline to many tv jokes is simply a fat person eating a sandwich, or even funnier – a fat woman flirting with a classicly handsome man – how dare she! She could never be attractive! But that same fat lady – me – can shop for shoes with her skinny gal pals and just in this one teeny area of life not have to endure apologetic pitiful stares and outright mocking because my money will by me beautiful shoes that fit properly. Don’t alienate us big girls who click the links of your affiliate programs and buy those gorgeous shoes, Manolo. I’m sure you’re exceptionally gorgeous and only have pals who are model thin, but your audience is likely more like me than you.
SpaniardintheWorks 18 years ago
I don’t get it. It’s mean to poke fun at someone’s failure to take care of his/her body properly, but poking fun at someone’s lack of taste and dress sense isn’t? Why’s that?
There’s nothing wrong with being overweight, as the Manolo has often remarked. There IS something wrong with being overweight and insisting on wearing tight white trousers.
divina lucilla 18 years ago
manolo has made fun even of very thin and pretty girls (look at the last post on jessica simpson)….making fun of one’s size is like making fun of how someone is dressed, and this is beacuse what we put on represents what we are. but no one ever jumped up and said “you shouldn’t be doing this”!! all of us laughed when someone pokes fun at someone’s way of dressing.
and if you put your mouse on the photo, he has written “the garth and the trisha they are just like the rest of us”, which is a comment that speaks for itself.
i am not a skinny girl at all, and i think that sometimes when comments hurt us it is beacuse we are not able to feel fine with ourselves and perceive not serious or not harsh comments like very bad things. but this is obviously my personal silly opinion :)
Manolo the Shoeblogger 18 years ago
As the Manolo has noted in the past….
“It is the sad fact that the Manolo he was not blessed with the elegant shape of the body, and so he, like many of the peoples, must fight the war against the fatness. The war he himself loses as much as he wins.”
To the Manolo this little joke it was much funnier (if you know the Garth Books song) than the alternative, which was “Here are the Garth and the Trisha heading out to do their clothes shopping at the feed store.”
Sometimes the jokes, they are not politically correct, but they make the Manolo laugh so hard that he must share them. This joke it falls into that category.
deja pseu 18 years ago
Being one of “little teapot” proportions (short and stout), the deja is aware of and offended by the mean-spirited fat jokes. However this little jibe by the Manolo did not strike the deja as such. And yes, the white pants are a fashion risk anywhere other than on the tropical island sipping the intoxicating fruit drinks of astronimical caloric content.
El Capitan 18 years ago
El Capitan wants to know… where is the Chris Gaines, and what does he have to say about this?
divina lucilla 18 years ago
and by the way,hicktowndiva, saying that someone dresses horrible like WE ALL DO should be banned too at this point:you say that we don’t know why someone is fat, that that person might have serious problems….well, when you and i and all in this world make fun of a person who is dressed horrible, we should feel ashamed because it might be that that person is very poor, has very serious problems, etc etc….
so the solution is to be silent, be always politically correct….which is sometimes worse than poking fun!!
i
ChristinaH. 18 years ago
I think that one of the pleasures of having a blog would be to state your own opinions because ultimately that’s all this is. Everybody is entitled to one and everybody is allowed to disagree. Everyday people at Wal-Mart dress like fools and everybody in Hollywood dress like fools or, are so thin that they look quite ill.So, ultimately, everyone should allowed to be stupid to some degree and look past it and to focus on the individual themselves.
desertwind 18 years ago
Manolo, honey, the link to your Fat is Beautiful Manifesto is not working.
Robyn 18 years ago
That’s Trisha Yearwood, right? I’m guessing she can afford to hire someone to help her go shopping and pick clothes that fit. The problem isn’t that she’s wearing white pants after Labor Day, or that she’s a size 14/16. The problem is that the clothes are too small. If she was wearing the same outfit it the right sizes, she’d look much better, and no one would say anything at all. The clothes don’t have to be from Fred Segal. She could be shopping at JC Penny-it’s all in the fit.
The hot pink does detract from her beautiful face and hair. White pants with a camel or chocolate brown top instead?
anonymous 18 years ago
I’m not thin, but I get compliments on my clothes. That’s because my clothes fit. And I make a lot, lot less money than Garth & Trisha do, but I look for flattering styles. These two people, talented as they are, happy as they look, need stylists. White pants…just…no, unless you’re a nurse, and even nurses don’t wear white pants anymore, I noticed on my last visit to the hospital.
Anyway. Manolo: I’m not that much thinner than Trisha. I laughed out loud at your comment. It’s funny. You’re brilliant. That’s all.
snarkylyn 18 years ago
I am thinking some people are a tad oversensitive, here. The Manolo was not talking about YOU, mortally offended darling, but Trisha Yearwood, who is in the public eye and fair game.
And, as an RN working in bariatrics, I do not believe the vast majority of overweight Americans have glandular or pituitary problems. No, they need more treadmill and less McDonalds. Maybe one hundredth of one percent of the overweight population can claim problems like that as a contributing factor. So gimme a break.
I thought is was hilarious, and a totally PC world is a boring one. Trish Yearwood should know ill-fitting white pants will provoke comment, regardless of her size.
will gaston 18 years ago
who ARE these people?
18 years ago
I don’t think that they look bad because they’re fat-
i think they look bad because their clothes are too small.
This chick has a pretty face, and if her shirt didn’t blatantly display her belly roll, she would come across as quite attractive.
I beleive Manolo had an article saying something to the effect that fat girls can indeed be superfantastic, but must take more care in dressing their bodies then skinny girls. Their clothes must fit and not cling unbecomingly.
Talix18 18 years ago
To answer will gaston, they are the Garth Brooks and the Trisha Yearwood, stars of the American country music and recently engaged to be wed. I love them dearly for their talent and their not killing themselves to be of the physical shape as are, for example, the Tim McGraw and the Faith Hill, who are also the stars of the American country music.
That said, the muffin top is never the correct answer.
Zarba 18 years ago
Perhaps if these two multimillionnaires had spent some money on good clothes, they would not look as though they were just leaving the tractor pull.
Oh, and Trisha, 1985 called; they want their hair back.
Kourtney 18 years ago
Maybe they were leaving the tractor pull… those can be fun, I’ve heard. If they were, they were perhaps a titch overdressed… who can say?
I laughed over the Manolo’s comment because of its pun to a country song lyric; not because of anyone’s weight. And as Robyn said – it’s all about the fit. People look best in properly fitting clothes.
And really, these two look so much happier than any of the skinny-minnies that Manolo mocks; I’m sure they laugh in good grace, & note to themselves to put away the white pants.
shiloh 18 years ago
It was a wee bit funny manolo but not laugh out loud like the jessica simpson post.
The truth, it sometimes hurts, though i could see the humour in it if i were 20kg lighter.
But, you only live the once why depress yourself in black, brown and navy eh?
And sucking it in – tried it. too much effort. be super fantastic in yourself first. the rest will flow.
Lori 18 years ago
For the man with a few extra pounds or a round face, the goatee and moustache are not flattering. They make his face look wider than it is. And short, short hair, to my way of thinking, flatters only those men who are as lean and fit as Marines.
Mims Mimsington 18 years ago
White pants should only be worn by certain 19 year old boys from Auckland… but I digress.
Joan 18 years ago
Oh, and Trisha, 1985 called; they want their hair back.
This was quite as good as the Manolo’s original snark.
For me, there was much affection in this post, and I enjoyed it.
Miss Tanya 18 years ago
I doubt very much Garth and Trisha are afflicted with gland problems. Like the rest of us they probably need to get on the treadmill. Fact.
Texasexile 18 years ago
Five bucks says they stopped at Walmart on the way home . . . .
Esther 18 years ago
Lordy be, this cracked me up.
AthenaNY 18 years ago
God, this photo reminds me of too many trips to Disney World. And y’all know what I’m talkin’ about.
pbird 18 years ago
The only reason the rest of us haven’t been photographed in a stupid outfit is because most of us anyhow, aren’t followed around by photographers. Maybe they are too happy to worry about it.
a 18 years ago
hey just be glad the camel toe is not visible. which means those pants are not as tight as they *could* be.